Number of half-empty Chicago public schools doubles, yet lawmakers want to extend school closing moratorium – Wirepoints
April 19, 2024
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A set of state lawmakers want to extend CPS’ current school closing moratorium to February 1, 2027 – the same year CPS is set to transition to a fully-elected school board. That means schools like Manley High School, with capacity for more than 1,000 students but enrollment of just 78, can’t be closed for anther three years. The school spends $45,000 per student, but just 2.4% of students read at grade level.
Hopefully, all media will get the message, in Illinois, too.
Ted joined Tom Miller of WJPF to talk about Illinois’ highest-in-the-nation property taxes, why lawmakers don’t want to touch the tax’s cost drivers, just how much Illinoisans’ tax burden has grown over the decades, why Gov. Pritzker failed to meet his promise to reform property taxes, and more.
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS,We left 2 years ago.I won’t tell you the great life we have now,you just stay there as the fat demigod takes your home,take food off your table,gas tax so high,and destroy your childs mind will the insanity from chicago in your southern illinois schools, just stay there and take it.The dems in southern illinios are just as rotten as the ones in chicago.But you won’t leave, so stay there.